African Philosophy and Deep Ecology (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction?Kenneth Uyi Abudu, Kevin Behrens and Elvis Imafidon? 1.?From intrinsic value to ontological reality ? the philosophy of ‘life energy’ or ‘vital force’ in Bantu Philosophy?Angela Roothaan? 2.?The Environment in Yoruba Collaborative Ontology?Abidemi Israel Ogunyomi? 3.?Radicalizing Ubu-ntu: Some Critical Thoughts on Mogobe Ramose’s Philosophy of Ubu-ntu and a Proposal for its Desuperiorization?Bjorn Freter? 4.?Interrogating Deep Ecology within the framework of Ubuntu Philosophy?Dennis Masaka? 5.?An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualism and Holism?Thaddeus Metz? 6.?African Ecological Ethics and Moral Status of Non-human Nature?Kai Horsthemke? 7.?An African Relational Environmentalism and Moral Considerability?Kevin Gary Behrens 8.?Deep Ecology, Ontic Relationality and Positionality: Exploring the Ontology of Anthropogenic Waste?Elvis Imafidon? 9.?Peripherality, Non-philosophy and Ecology in African Philosophy?Bruce Janz? 10.?Selective Subordination for harmony and holistic balance from an African perspective?Emmanuel Ofuasia? 11.?Biodiversity Conservation in Nigeria: Contrasting an Anthropocentric and a Deep Ecology Perspective?Olajide Akinleye-Martins, Naziru Zakari Muhammad, Helen Kopnina, and Mike Russell? 12.?Eco-Phenomenology and Deep Ecology: Towards an African Lived-Ecology of the Human ? Non-human Relationship?Kenneth Uyi Abudu? 13.?Deep Ecology, Irreducibility, and African Relational Thinking?Mitchell Black and Juan Oeschger? 14.?Integrating Deep Ecology, Degrowth, and Ubuntu: Foundations for an Ecosophy?Aida C. Terblanche-Greeff (Botha)? 15.?Colonisation, Modernity and Trauma: Beyond the Human in African Places?Augustine E. Iyare??Conclusion?Kenneth Uyi Abudu, Kevin Behrens and Elvis Imafidon